Planning Quotes - Page 5

• Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Cutting, Goal

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• Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Entrepreneur, Mao, Central Planning

  Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler (1997). “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”, Wiley

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• To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Enemy, Plans, Accounts

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• Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Chance, Exposure, Determine

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus”, p.362

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• A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Hands, May

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• I don't really have a career plan.

  Damien Hirst

  Careers, Plans

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• Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.

  Rollo May

  Beach, Inspiration, Writing

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Curves, Years, Life Is

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• For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

  Robert Genn

  Self, Going Out, Artistic

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• Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Pain, Successful

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• To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Results, Method

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.179, e-artnow

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• At all times it is better to have a method.

  Mark Cane

  Time, Method, All Time

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goal, Management, Aim

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

  Daniel Burnham

  Noble, Urban, Logical

  Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

  John Naisbitt

  Business, Vision, Firsts

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Asks

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• If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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• We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Life, Ideas, Enthusiasm

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• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Song: 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' ('Double Fantasy')". 1980.

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• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Music, Art

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• Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

  Randall Munroe

  Life, Motivational, Smart

  Webcomic by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com.

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